Installation view of “Postcards of the Wiener Werkstatte” (All photos by the author for Hyperallergic) What significance does a single image have in visual culture? The postcard, that old redoubt of ...

A new exhibit at Vassar College highlights the personal papers of the renowned 20th Century poet Elizabeth Bishop – with a fun twist. Lining the halls of Vassar’s stately Thompson Library are tables ...

Picture postcards became popular in America as souvenirs and message sending devices in the late nineteenth century. Their minimal cost, portability, and accessibility enabled the tourist an ...

It's been nearly 150 years since the postcard first came on the scene. The great-grandparent to tweets, profiles, feeds and other social media, postcards were once the most efficient and cheapest form ...